AMD Strix Point “Ryzen” APU With 12 Zen 5 Cores On Par With 8-Core Ryzen 7 7700X “Zen 4” In Early Blender Leak

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A brand new benchmark of the upcoming AMD Ryzen "Strix Point" APU with 12 Zen 5 cores has leaked out & is on par with the 7700X.

So how exactly do we know this is an AMD Strix Point "Ryzen" APU? Well, similar OPN IDs have leaked out multiple times before this benchmark revelation but in slightly different configs. We've seen the 100-000000994-03_N back in 2023 and the most recent entry was spotted twice with the 100-000000994-14_N OPN which you can see here and here. The most recent entry has the OPN "100-000000994-38_Y" ID which should suggest that it is better than the past two entries but we should still consider it as an early engineering sample.

As far as what we know about this SKU, the AMD Ryzen "Strix Point" APU should feature 12 cores based on the Zen 5 core architecture, 24 threads, 24 MB of L3 cache, 12 MB of L2 cache & a base clock speed rated at 3.8 GHz. It should also feature an RDNA 3+ iGPU with up to 16 compute units and feature support for LPDDR5X/DDR5 memory based on the platform it is used on.

In terms of performance, the AMD Ryzen "Strix Point" APU scored 270.92 points in the Blender multi-core test which puts it on par with the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X with a score of 269.02 points. There are far more entries for the Ryzen 7 7700X which means that it is a more conclusive test but we have to remember that this is an 8-core chip based on the Zen 4-core architecture with much higher power limits. Meanwhile, the Strix Point APUs would be confined to more conservative mobile platforms with a TDP of around 35-45W.

The AMD Strix Point "Ryzen" APU with Zen 5 cores also ends up 21% faster than the 8-core Ryzen 9 7940HS with 8 Zen 4 cores which is a respectable improvement. With that in mind, I believe that the Strix Point APU is showing far decent results and we can expect them to be even better when the final silicon gets tested.

AMD's Ryzen "Strix Point" APUs will make their formal debut at Computex 2024 under a brand new naming scheme which will go heavy on the "Ryzen AI" side of things. Expect more information to be shared soon.

News Source: HXL (@9550pro)